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<p n="1040"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx: ss</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n1040-1">William Fanks</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45014_geo441">Red Lyon Court</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45014_geo442">Saint Martin<lb></lb>
in the Fields</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45014_geo443">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45014_occ139">Bricklayer</rs>
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taken before me One of his<lb></lb>
Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45014_occ140">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said<lb></lb>
County.</p>
<p n="1041">Who being upon Oath saith That on the Twentieth of this Instant<lb></lb>
March this Informant in passing up <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45014_geo444">Russell Street Covent Garden</rs>
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met<lb></lb>
with two persons now present who call themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n1041-1">Ann Gale</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n1041-2">Frances Ruxton</rs>
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and agreed to take them home to his own Lodging<lb></lb>
and when they came there One of them (<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n1041-3">Ann Gale</rs>
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) layed with this<lb></lb>
Informant upon his Bed but this Informant saith the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
before they did so<lb></lb>
he lock'd his Chamber Door but left the Key therein, and soon<lb></lb>
after so doing this Informant went to Sleep,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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And this Informant further saith that<del>before</del>
upon his aweking<obscured></obscured>
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to his great Surprize he formed that the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n1041-4">Ann Gale</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n1041-5">Frances Ruxton</rs>
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were gone out of the said Room and he<lb></lb>
imediately Missed One Blue Cloth Coat One Pair of Black<lb></lb>
Stocking Breetches One Hatt a Pair of Pumps One pair of<lb></lb>
Shoe Buckles and Two Neck cloths and diverse other things<lb></lb>
which said Things this Informant verily believes were<lb></lb>
feloniously taken and carried away by the said Ann Gele<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n1041-6">Frances Ruxton</rs>
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<p n="1042">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45014_date86">27th. March<lb></lb>
1769 </rs>
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before me.</p>
<p n="1043"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n1043-1">Saunders Welch</rs>
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<p n="1044">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45014_n1044-1">William Franks</rs>
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